I turned 40 last year and realized i couldnt do pullups anymore. That was a wake up call. I started dieting and exercising with the goal of reaching 10. A year later and im down 50lbs, and can easily do 10, and do 5 sets of 10 a few times a week. Watching this video makes me want to see what my max is when i hit the gym tomorrow. If you get into your 40s and wake up and wonder why you feel sick and tired, and where all the weight came from, you can turn it around.
Nice job man, I also just hit 10 consecutive pull ups for the first time today. I think when I get to 12 consecutive imma start doing weighted pull ups, if you can do 5 sets of 10 easy I'd reccomend you start trying weighted pull ups as well!
10 is sort of easy on my first set. Steady, clean, all the way down and up. After that, it gets harder and a little sloppier to be honest. I always stop at 10, so maybe I should try to see how many I can do. I probably can't do many more than 10 clean, so maybe 15? I'll try Monday.
When I was 240lbs last year and couldn't do more than a couple, it was disappointing. I'm 40 years old and 6'3". Shouldn't be that hard. Now that I'm 185lbs, it's easier not pulling up all that weight. I think my calorie deficit is hindering my strength though. I noticed my endurance is up, but I lift less than I did a while ago. Also, I lift fasted, so maybe that's a factor. I don't know. This whole fitness journey is new to me, so there is so much to learn.
48 years old. I couldn't do a single pullup this year. I started lifting and 8 months later I am up to 11 in a single set. It takes practice, hard work, and dedication.
You were super generous allowing chin-ups as well as pull-ups because I find chin-ups infinitely easier. I can crank out a couple no problem, but I'm nowhere near a proper pull-up yet.
@@MrLinker44 Yea, with an untrained back, I could jump into some chin ups straight away as I got a pull up bar for home. But had to grind out bar hanging, then assisted pull ups with legs on chair until I could do an actual 1st pull-up, and I'm relatively decent shape otherwise. The progression went pretty smoothly from there tho' & reached a nr of 6-7 pretty quickly, felt like something got unlocked.
i can eek out 5, and ive been lifting weights in limited home gym setup for past year (from previously sedentary lifestyle). They are hard! I wonder if the increased muscle mass ive put on has made it harder in a way, because ive only just got the pull up bar and cable system VS training that exercise from get go. Now with dips, prob i could probably do 10-15 max to start. In the year ive been able to do a max of 40. Huge difference in ability. Ive been doing them in the corner of kitchen bench top. Back to pull ups, i start by doing my 4 or 5 pull ups for first set, then do cable pull downs , and i hope to build up in weight from there, which will i hope aid in the pull ups ( i dont have those resistance bands to assist)
People don't want to interact with other people, or don't want to be recorded or participate in any contest. It's not about the money or being able to do a pull up
I am 51 years old. Three months ago I could only do two pull-ups. I've been doing sets three days a week and now I can do eight pull-ups! I go all the way up and all the way down, slow and controlled.
The feeling of getting that 1 proper rep of pull up when I was a beginner was really powerful. After struggling to get myself up due to lack of strength.
@@athos9293 how long you been exercising and what do you do? I consider myself weaker then most of the kids growing up but pull ups was never hard for me.
I’m working on powerlifting now, but for a while I was doing calisthenics in a park. One morning, an elderly man (70+) in an SUV pulled up just as I was about to leave. I watched him get out of his car, walk slowly over to the bar, and do five perfect pull ups. It gave me the chills and I don’t think I’ll ever forget that. I see too many people using age as an excuse, who are decades younger than the man at the park.
I don't think they are using age as an excuse. I think they genuinely believe that they are too old to train. As you get older, people are constantly telling you that you are too old to do certain things and if you hear it enough times you start to believe it. I used to be extreme;y fit when I was younger, but my health had reached a very low point as I headed into my fifties due to long working hours, injuries and general neglect. I used to struggle to get out of chairs, up stairs etc. Due to an issue with my legs I had to start doing some physio exercises and within 3 months I no longer had issues getting out of chairs etc. I feel motivated to do more training, as I feel like I did 15-20 years ago. It makes me wonder about older people who you see struggling to stand up and if they could improve the quality of their lives if someone took the trouble to help them exercise. I believe that exercising when you get older is probably more important than when you are younger, when you already have a degree of fitness.
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I am 51 and I can do 10-12 pull ups and I am 5'7 210lbs. From 16 to 46 years old when I was only 170lbs. I was able to do 20-21. In my gym I got paired up with a 23 year old. He is more athletic and faster but when it comes to strength I can keep up with him. Age has slowed me down quite a bit, but if I had stopped moving I feel like I would be so much more slower. Keep on exercising it does keep you from being frail and infirm.
@@alxtan1 Good for you, but you guys still don't get the point, some people get to that age with injuries or other conditions that are contrary to pullups for example, is that so hard to understand?
its something you have to see for yourself tbh, id have pullup competitions at my old work and everyone pretty much just jumped to the top and did quarter reps.
The thing is in the USA everyone is overweight, so it's like their trying to do weighted pull ups before they even get good at regular pull ups. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more people could do them if he did this challenge in a different country.
I'm a lazy, sedentary 18 year old who's taken a sudden interest in working out; I was able to crank out my first pull up ever a day or two ago. My form sucked horribly but I feel so much better about myself just being able to get my chin above the bar.
...my favorite too. Every time I go to the gym, I do chin ups. Other stuff I rotate through. It must be an instinct thing from the days of climbing trees.
The amount of people that walked past without even allowing themselves to try was crazy. Even crazier is how many people gave up after putting in only ~20-40% effort. Only Steve and a few others seemed to fully try. It’s really insightful, it goes to show how people are more interested in protecting their ego or pride than they are at actually advancing. If you never fully try you never actually have to confront your weaknesses.
true. at the start of my training I couldnt get a single dip. 2 years later im 20kg heavier and can do weights I couldnt even imagine back then. its abou trying anyway when you are weak, and still work hard once you get strong
Oddly enough though there was a lack of pride by not trying your best. I'd respect someone way more for putting in 100% than giving up early or not trying. People have a very skewed view of "self pride."
@@ering1107 It’s not a lack of pride to not try because they never said to anyone they wanted to. Think about it like this, a guy really wants a girl, if he admits to himself and others he wants her and is going to try and pursue her than he has to face the fact that despite his best efforts she might reject him. Ego doesn’t like that so the safer thing is just to lie to others (and possibly even himself) about liking her… That is also a form of pride, wanting to only try things you know you’d be good at.
Nah, average people are just a waste of Oxygen we aren't special. I'm supposedly strong for being able to 1rm 100kg on bench? Lol people do 30-40 reps with it.
It never even crossed my mind that a pull up is this challenging, it’s just something I’ve done since school days and carried it with me into my training today. I would never want to get to a point where I can’t do a pull-up, that’s mad.
Was thinking the same thing I don’t remember ever having to learn a pull up just something I’ve always been able to do and if I suddenly couldn’t Then I’ve hit rock bottom 😂
I remember when I was a lot younger the first time I went round a friends house, he had one of those pullup bars that you can put in a doorway, he told me to give it a try and I just hung there like a potato lol. I'd never worked out or anything at that point, even I was surprised how weak I was!
Yea when I first started doing pull-ups I realized how many muscles are required in the motion since I'd wake extremely sore all over the place after doing a couple.
@@alexrailton2067 I was like that during 8th grade, but it just comes naturally. First banded pull ups then free motion, I can do 20 max at 200lb, but just not as easy as when I was 190lb
I'm 53 work out 4 times a week but until today never did a pull up or chin up since 1986! It amazed me that I could do 8 chin ups followed by 5 pull ups since I added a pull up bar to my home gym. Such a versatile exercise so beneficial for strong lats/back/biceps/core. Going to use them now for warm ups & cool downs when training👌💪
I could do 15-20 pull-ups when I was younger, then I put on some weight. 6 weeks ago I started going to the gym again and I couldn't even do two. Today at the gym I did a set of 8, a set of 8, and a set of six. I reckon I could've done 10/11 in a row!
Same when i was 15-16 i started with 1-2 and built up to 14-15 in 3 months. Now at 33 after losing some weight and doing extra gym time to get back in shape i cant get over 7-8. My weight/strength ratio is off.
100. pull hard af, like your trying to break the bar across your chest. doing this )( with your elbows also helps. nothing feels better than slamming chest to bar so hard the cage rattles xD BAM CLANG, so satisfying
Ill tell you a funny story. I am a trucker, always had an intense pushup and resistance band workout routine. I have big old arms, and look quite fit. Was use to doing 65 pushups first set. I thought i was in decent shape. One day i was bored at a truck stop, and went into the weight room they had. There were pullup grips at the top of the machine. I thought this should be easy. To my amazement i could not even do 1/2 of a pullup. Lol That was 2 years ago, now pullups are my fav exercise.
"If you want to get good at running, you have to go running," my sergeant would always say. I did just that and can now comfortably run a sub-six mile. One day our squadron busted out some jump ropes and I thought, "I haven't jumped rope in a decade, but my cardio is off the charts so this should be cake." To my surprise, I was gassed after about two minutes. It's amazing how your body adapts, but only to the specific thing it's used to. I learned that, in the world of fitness, being good at something similar is not always translatable, which is why I (unpopularly) respect the hell out of crossfit athletes.
Your video inspired me, at 70, to try and do a pull up . I started at 2-3 chin ups. After 3 months I squeeked out 29 max, untill I strained my wrist. Had to back off. I'm back up to 18 last night. Thanks for the encouragement!
I was the guy, and I'm pretty proud of myself. Sure I might be weird and definitely need work on my form, the whole bashing people thing is just laughable. Come on, grow up, and have more exciting lifes if you're so unhappy that you bash someone for actually being unafraid to do something scary 🤗
I recently just got back into fitness training frequently. I made the dangerous realization that I had become jaded about how long fitness lasts after a person stops working out. If I hadn't started back I would have quickly fallen into the no pull-up camp. It's amazing how quickly we will become complacent to our health in leui of short term comfort.
its nice to work out, but it doesnt have much to do with health though. everyone is on the health lie, even bodybuilders. just admitt that you want to be strong and or jacked. just slightly fast walking for 5-10km a day for example is healthier then all this strenght training. dont forget all the injurys that occur while working out
Definitely the same. I stopped going to the gym about 4 years back but could do around 15 pull ups back then. Was totally shocked when I went to an obstacle course that required an upper body climb and I couldn't even really get started. Started going to the gym again right after that. 2 months in and its slowly coming back
The key for me is never to have more than 3 days off. Even if injured or ill, do a little movement, stretching even. Keeps your mind in the right place. Whenever I take a week off, it can turn into months easily
Man i was doom scrolling in bed for like 2 hours. Found this video and it made me get up and do 1 pull up. After seeing all those fail it just gave me the urge!
This made me stop in the middle of the video and get my pullup bar out to prove to myself I could still do a few pullups. I'm only at 4-5 max in a set right now, but hopefully will get to more soon!
I think this is one of those things that unless you do them(or similar activity) then you will struggle hard. I remember being fit, but never doing them and thinking it would be easy. Stalling out on two!
you are exactly right and that is why he is doing this challenge people don’t realize how difficult, even one, pull up is for somebody that doesn’t do pull-ups
@@therealjackieheezy you do similair exercisez with the machines only that there is slight shift in muscle activation due to it requiring more coordination
@@NLSniperLordNL let me clarify, i meant ppl who don’t do pull ups or exercise in general somebody like yourself that does his thing but maybe not pull ups so much, i can definitely see you breaking some off if you wanted to
This was fun to watch! I did not realise just doing 1 for the average person is very difficult, i am doing 3 sets of 10 when fresh , i am 46 , i pull my knees up too
@@davidhernandez2683 I’m sure it depends on who you are including in this survey. Stand in front of a gym and the odds are most people can do a pull up. Go to a convalescent home and nobody could do one. But I suppose most people can’t do one. I find them to be very easy.
100% that stat is real. One of my goals is to do 1 good pullup. I recently started doing dips and I'm so close to doing controlled dips on bars. I literally held myself up the first like 20 times.
when I was 18 I couldnt even do one good dip. at 20 now I crank them out easy. keep working and youll get it. I also couldnt crank 3 decent pullups. now I do 100kg (total) weighter pullups for 10 reps
@@zacksomers1811 Hey, clickbait doesn't make itself, how else are all the 50+ year olds in the comments here going to tell us about how they went from only lifting cans of beer to now lifting rockets into space.
You give so much positive energy. I can’t understand how people are so rude and stiff. Bro if you did this in here in the Netherlands and it doesn’t matter where, you would have a whole crowd of people around you and everyone participating would be so thankfull. Everyone in the video looks so full of themselves with all the comment about themselves
@@davis4555 Agree, I used to live in both LA and NY, while my aunt lives in Louisiana. The difference is night and day. Blue states, especially their mega cities, are basically hellhole without biblical fire. They portrayed it as the ultimate American dream, while cowboys in rural Midwest and down South are much better human beings, just the media portrayed them as either uncivilized hillbilly, Amish, or inbreds. Even Australia's megacities are better than America's politically wise.
60 year old man here. My standard bodyweight is 17 pullups then hang at the top and do 1 more. Took me 1 year and a half to do 8 pullups with 40 lbs weights before I could do those 18 with bodyweight. These are all done non stop and with correct form. I was motivated with those guys in the park on utube.
Just turned 57 last month. I do 5 sets of 10 wide arm pullups. No kipping. And, not to exhaustion because I want good, clean reps. Hum, I wonder what I could max on. No, I'm not bragging. But, a man of average height and weight should be able to do one measly pullup.
Only did 13 at the gym the other day after a long layoff, which was discouraging (used to be able to do 25). But this video reminded me that it’s a still a lot better than average.
13 strict pull-ups is really impressive. 25 pull-ups is insane. But the truth is that 90% of people lie to themselves. They don't do a strict pull-up which means after every rep you need to get into a dead hang. I can do 14 strict pull-ups but that's after a year of training.
I was previously 280 pounds and nothing but fat. I've lost over 90 pounds and started working out this year. Pullups have been the last thing I've been able to get going with, but with a few weeks of consistency and effort, I am now doing 7 pullups in a single set (this compared to zero 6 six months ago) Also, Steve was fronting and got exposed. 🤣😂
@@Monsterenergy791 Exactly. I’m in my 50s and can still do at least 12. And I ain’t much! Seriously, men should not let themselves get so weak that they can’t do a few pull-ups. Being older is no excuse!
Currently in the 25+ pull-up camp. This is good motivation to remind everyone how quickly we lose fitness - it's easier to keep when you already have it.
Out of curiosity do you do underhand (chin up) or overhand? Chin ups I can definitely do 25+ but overhand my best is 22 and that took me a while to get to.
What do y'all do when your biceps get so inflamed and filled with blood that you physically can't bend your elbows enough to reach your chin above the bar? Currently, I'm getting stuck at around 10 without running out of energy due to this problem.
When I was a teenager I could do sets of 20. I've let myself go and now can't do one, but I'm working out again. This video made me feel good and inspires me to get back to that point. 🤘
I was never able to do a single pull up in my prime. I used to think that it was way too hard. After 34 years old, I finally succeeded and was able to do between 5 and 10 pull up from the dead hang position. Never give up, trust me, it's never too late and doing 3 to 5 pull up is not that hard.Just developed good habits and seek the advice of people who have already conquered the objectives you are after.
I have never been able to do any pull ups. A few days ago I was at my friend’s house and tried one and for some reason I did it pretty easily. I still don’t know how I did it.
Same here, took me several months if not a year to understand that I have to bring my shoulder blates together while at the same time bringing the shouders down in one smooth motion all the way up.
@@Joh-jf5kc exactly, correct technique is crucial. All back and core muscles along with arm strength are gonna be more capable than arm strength only. There are tons of tutorials on You Tube and channels like Athlean X which can help. For us in the internet era there are absolutely no excuses, knowledge is within reach, like literally at hand
Before I started going to the gym almost one year ago I could do one single, shaky chin above bar pull up, now I can do 14. It's one of my favorite exercises and a regular exercise in my program.
Start adding weight dude! Hang a kettlebell or dumbbell from your waist. I try and stay in rep ranges of 8 - 12 and add weight when I get beyond 12. Currently get around 12 with a 20kg weight
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If you've never done it before, it's hard. Even if you have more than enough strength to pull yourself up. I could lift my own body weight (52 kilos[very hard, but not impossible]) but when I tried for the first time it was extremely hard. I did it but still, felt like I weighed 3-4x my actual weight
When you say "lift you own bodyweight" which lift are you referring to? The deadlift uses a lot of leg drive, where as a pullup is zero leg drive, so it would make sense that you couldn't do one pullup. One pullup would be equivalent to a BW lat pulldown or BB row.
As a 50 pound elementary kid back in the day, I could do at least one, there is no excuse for any person not to be able to do one, if your in moderate shape
After being skinny fit my whole life i finally can do 5-6 pull ups with perfect form after a few months and it always feels like that's not many at all, but after seeing this i feel a little better.
That's a lot! I could do 20 when I wrestled in highschool, but now I'm not even sure I could do 5 or 6 lol Weighing 125 pounds and being ripped as fuck definently helps
Nick, i just watched this whole clip, very entertaining...you should definitely do more of these that involve the general public. Especially the goofy office workers...Honestly, people need to start working out more. Those young ones should have been able to do at least one.
im 13 yr old girl and i could do around 10 strict pull-ups last year, but i stopped doing them because i had nowhere to practice, so idk where to do em lol but this kind of inspired me to try to practice more and try harder to find places so i hope this video also inspired others to, because you never know where nick could be! *EDIT* : thank you so much for all the suggestions! my mom told me there was a gym in our community and im actually up to 11 pull-ups. my goal is to do 12-15 before my 14th birthday. i wish everyone luck with their strength journeys and *never* give up, because you've already worked so hard, there's no use in giving up now. it will take work, but you can't earn anything if you never try. wouldn't it be a shame to one day say that you sacrificed your success to sit comfortably with your excuses? And dont you realize, if you quit now, you'll end up right back to where you first began. When you first began, you were desperate to be where you are now. So keep going and Stay safe
A park playground is usually a good bet outside. Try a tree with a relatively horizontal branch or the back of a stairwell that is metal. A sturdy table that you can go under and do horizontal pullups will carry over well
At 61, I can do pull ups. I typically do 4 sets of 8 to 10 in a workout. I did a progression to get there though. I started with banded pull ups, negatives only, etc.
Man I'd love to run into a challenge like this some day. My friends and I all do rock climbing and calisthenics, and I'd love to do this just to bolster the number of people that can do 1 pull up.
It’s very bizarre to those of us that have always been active, but I have been surprised many times to learn how incredibly difficult it is to do pull-ups for those who never work out. Grateful to have a strong and healthy body and hopefully others will be inspired to do the same
my baseline 2 years ago after not working out at all for years was 2 pullups. Now I've been rock climbing for two years and I can do 10! Like really proper pull ups, all the way down then chin over the bar and back down. It feels so good to finally feel and look strong at age 35. Took me long enough
Neither of them went all the way down. Actually all of the pull ups had different ROM. These kinds of contests are meaningless without a clear definition of a rep. If you count this as 21 pull ups, there's no wonder so many people on youtube claim they can do over 20. They just do some random ROM and end up with an arbitrary count.
@@MrCmon113 I dont think their pullups where perfect but they where pretty good form and with perfect form they might do like 3 less. The people that claim to easilly do 30 are kinda bullshitting tho because 30 is a LOT. Like I could do a one arm pullup when I couldnt do more then 20 pullups without even ever training for it. Thats how much 20 good pullups are worth.
Just found your channel earlier this week and I've been binging your content. I love your attitude and the message and awareness you're spreading about fitness!
I like to watch those videos because after a long time of training sometimes im disappointed and i can remember where i was before and how most people arent half there. Not to compare but just to appreciate the work done
I am 59 and I do pull-ups at least twice per week. My daughters are impressed because so many young people can't do one. Pushups and pull-ups are high-yield exercises in return for a modest time commitment.
@Slawsers 35 reps at any bodyweight is actually insane. When you start adding mass though the reps start dropping. Similar story, 20 reps at 150lb and 12 reps at 200lb.
Young people are getting married way too young. an I phone is a lousy sex partner.. and kids are not anywhere close to being in the same shape we were at their age. 60 years ago it was like wrestle with my neighbor for half an hour, then shoot some hoops.. probably 4-5 times a week. but we had typewriters, and no computers. in fact no electronic calculators, but a slide rule . The kids today never go out, or work out.. just eat junk food and get fat
When I started working out again several months ago, it took me 2 months to be able to do a single pull up. It felt really good, like a nice tangible milestone in fitness. Now I can do at least 5 with perfect form, maybe a couple more if I struggled for it. I think it's a really good measure of someone's fitness because it directly pits them against their own bodyweight.
Thank you, I've watched Nick's videos for a while and always wanted to be in one, saw a FB ad the same day I took a day off work, and that's how I ended up there xD.
I'm pretty sure he says where he's going to do the challenges ahead of time on his insta. Or so I've heard another commenter say. Can't hurt to check it out
I loved this video! Wish I had been there. I'm a woman, and it took me three months of training to get my first pull-up of my life. I was 36 at the time. I didn't know it was possible for women to do pull-ups. I have a clear memory of my freshman year of high school: Our gym teacher had the girls go up to the pull-up bar one by one for the physical fitness exam. Not even one girl from the class could do a pull-up--even our school's star athlete who was a state swimming champion. She got halfway up and was kicking as if she could swim the rest of the way up. Everyone was rooting for her and laughing at her at the same time. Even she couldn't do it. Finally at 36 years old, 22 years later, I was able to complete one pull-up and three consecutive chin-ups. One of the proudest moments of my life.
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Do you do sprints or distance training on your FitApp? honestly anything would help though,
No other video has made me feel so incredibly good about myself lol
Fr I do them by bending my legs got told that's harder can though 5,6 in a row without training
@@mrsurprise2294 bending legs is easier.
@@TheEncry I'm like bending it behind the knee still easier?
SAME BRO LMFAO
@@mrsurprise2294 You need to stretch out your legs straight out or straight down.
Bending evens weight more so its easier
I turned 40 last year and realized i couldnt do pullups anymore. That was a wake up call. I started dieting and exercising with the goal of reaching 10. A year later and im down 50lbs, and can easily do 10, and do 5 sets of 10 a few times a week. Watching this video makes me want to see what my max is when i hit the gym tomorrow. If you get into your 40s and wake up and wonder why you feel sick and tired, and where all the weight came from, you can turn it around.
Nice job man, I also just hit 10 consecutive pull ups for the first time today. I think when I get to 12 consecutive imma start doing weighted pull ups, if you can do 5 sets of 10 easy I'd reccomend you start trying weighted pull ups as well!
What was your max?
what was your max
10 is sort of easy on my first set. Steady, clean, all the way down and up. After that, it gets harder and a little sloppier to be honest. I always stop at 10, so maybe I should try to see how many I can do. I probably can't do many more than 10 clean, so maybe 15? I'll try Monday.
When I was 240lbs last year and couldn't do more than a couple, it was disappointing. I'm 40 years old and 6'3". Shouldn't be that hard. Now that I'm 185lbs, it's easier not pulling up all that weight. I think my calorie deficit is hindering my strength though. I noticed my endurance is up, but I lift less than I did a while ago. Also, I lift fasted, so maybe that's a factor. I don't know. This whole fitness journey is new to me, so there is so much to learn.
I'm 40, gained 40 pounds over the last 4 years, haven't exercised in those years and still can get 3 or 4... This video cured my depression.
wow youre easy
That’s great for you man, a confidence boost
@@personaencantadora9055 Thanks! Now I have to find a way to get rid of these 40 pounds!
hell yeah man, keep up the work
From dead hang? For each pull up? Post a vid
7:22 He knows he had no right asking this guy if he could do a pull up 😂
“Average American” 🤷♂️
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That guy was 100% the average American
He’s not a pull up guy he said it 👨🏻🦰
I don't even have to hit the timestamp to know who you're talking about 🤣 poor fella
48 years old. I couldn't do a single pullup this year. I started lifting and 8 months later I am up to 11 in a single set. It takes practice, hard work, and dedication.
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Yes it does. Excellent! Congratulations & keep up the good work!
Wow good job I’m 14 and I can do 5 😂😂
@@samsondo420 mk lmfao why did you say this
i can barely do 2 bad form pull ups, any tips but i can do about 5 chinups , any tips to increase pull ups
You were super generous allowing chin-ups as well as pull-ups because I find chin-ups infinitely easier. I can crank out a couple no problem, but I'm nowhere near a proper pull-up yet.
Same
same thing here i could do chin ups before i even started working out but pulls ups made my soul leave my body
@@MrLinker44 Yea, with an untrained back, I could jump into some chin ups straight away as I got a pull up bar for home.
But had to grind out bar hanging, then assisted pull ups with legs on chair until I could do an actual 1st pull-up, and I'm relatively decent shape otherwise.
The progression went pretty smoothly from there tho' & reached a nr of 6-7 pretty quickly, felt like something got unlocked.
Was on a bulk and had a really hard time with them, enter cut and somehow 12-15 is 0 problem
Back vs arm strength. Unless someone trains, weighs less or genetically gifted with back strength, pull ups are challenging.
The fact nobody even wanted to try is depressing.
i can eek out 5, and ive been lifting weights in limited home gym setup for past year (from previously sedentary lifestyle). They are hard! I wonder if the increased muscle mass ive put on has made it harder in a way, because ive only just got the pull up bar and cable system VS training that exercise from get go. Now with dips, prob i could probably do 10-15 max to start. In the year ive been able to do a max of 40. Huge difference in ability. Ive been doing them in the corner of kitchen bench top. Back to pull ups, i start by doing my 4 or 5 pull ups for first set, then do cable pull downs , and i hope to build up in weight from there, which will i hope aid in the pull ups ( i dont have those resistance bands to assist)
Most people settle for mediocrity
People don't want to interact with other people, or don't want to be recorded or participate in any contest. It's not about the money or being able to do a pull up
@@Arodrim not any better.
@@pwabd2784 It is.
Man I’m praying I run into one of your challenges one day, woild be awesome!
I was thinking the same lol I would have won some cash for sure.
Do you even lift bro?
@@abcdefg54321x Who are you asking? If it's me just click my profile
Would**
@@king-qi2ks oh right, thanks so much! :)
136 year old here. When i started 4 months ago i could not hang my jacked on the coat rack. After some hard training i am doing like 20 in a set now.
Good for you for exercising at that age!
@@sander9951 LMAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
are you up for a world record? 😂
Shit, and here I thought the oldest was held by Jeanne clement… at 122 years…
You're strong
Meanwhile battle bunker be like “earn $.50 per weighted pull up while reciting the Declaration of Independence backwards”
@@Ryan-wx1bi why is it a joke? He’s still giving out free money. Also he’s usually asking for people at a gym not random people at a mall.
@@Ryan-wx1bi ..its free money wym joke?
Damn Nick dont like battle bunker lol
You act like he makes millions of dollars?
He giving the money out on TH-cam shorts, so he barely makes money from that
This is making me feel powerful. Thanks.
I am 51 years old. Three months ago I could only do two pull-ups. I've been doing sets three days a week and now I can do eight pull-ups! I go all the way up and all the way down, slow and controlled.
That's the way to do them bro, keep knocking them out
Sweet man that’s awesome
hell yeah man way to go
Nice
wow good job im 21 still super young and i do 3 sets of 8 pull ups. good job my man this gives hope to the young generation.. we have TIME!
Yo! That’s me at 10:00! Thanks for the 100$ Nick! Hopefully I can crush another fitness challenge soon! 🤘🏽🤙🏽 Mahalo & Aloha!
Panda for lunch huh
@@eddiegarcia8040 bro is fixated on that 😂😂
Good job buddy
good job.
You got a great frame for calisthenics!
The feeling of getting that 1 proper rep of pull up when I was a beginner was really powerful. After struggling to get myself up due to lack of strength.
I haven't even worked out and I can do 5 I feel like everyone should be able to do at least one
@@juanswanson4721 a lotta people don't exercise and work a job with no physical requirements.
@@juanswanson4721 i litteraly exercise and can't do one
@@athos9293 how long you been exercising and what do you do? I consider myself weaker then most of the kids growing up but pull ups was never hard for me.
@@juanswanson4721 was it a pull up or a chin up? 5 pull ups are definitely impossible for not working out but 5 chin ups are relatively easy
I’m working on powerlifting now, but for a while I was doing calisthenics in a park. One morning, an elderly man (70+) in an SUV pulled up just as I was about to leave. I watched him get out of his car, walk slowly over to the bar, and do five perfect pull ups. It gave me the chills and I don’t think I’ll ever forget that. I see too many people using age as an excuse, who are decades younger than the man at the park.
I don't think they are using age as an excuse. I think they genuinely believe that they are too old to train. As you get older, people are constantly telling you that you are too old to do certain things and if you hear it enough times you start to believe it. I used to be extreme;y fit when I was younger, but my health had reached a very low point as I headed into my fifties due to long working hours, injuries and general neglect. I used to struggle to get out of chairs, up stairs etc. Due to an issue with my legs I had to start doing some physio exercises and within 3 months I no longer had issues getting out of chairs etc. I feel motivated to do more training, as I feel like I did 15-20 years ago. It makes me wonder about older people who you see struggling to stand up and if they could improve the quality of their lives if someone took the trouble to help them exercise. I believe that exercising when you get older is probably more important than when you are younger, when you already have a degree of fitness.
QUALITY OVER QUANTITY. AGE IS & ALWAYS WILL BE, JUST A NUMBER.
POWER OF PLACEBO, LEARN IT, KNOW IT!
EMBRACE IT, THEN UTILIZE & INITIALIZE INTO ONES DAILY LIFE….. 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Probably he trained a lot when younger and older people who didn't wouldn't be able to catch up also some age better than others
I am 51 and I can do 10-12 pull ups and I am 5'7 210lbs. From 16 to 46 years old when I was only 170lbs. I was able to do 20-21. In my gym I got paired up with a 23 year old. He is more athletic and faster but when it comes to strength I can keep up with him.
Age has slowed me down quite a bit, but if I had stopped moving I feel like I would be so much more slower.
Keep on exercising it does keep you from being frail and infirm.
@@alxtan1 Good for you, but you guys still don't get the point, some people get to that age with injuries or other conditions that are contrary to pullups for example, is that so hard to understand?
watching this video gave me a huge confidence boost, I didnt realize so many people couldn't do a pull-up
its something you have to see for yourself tbh, id have pullup competitions at my old work and everyone pretty much just jumped to the top and did quarter reps.
the only reason we had competitions is cause the supervisors would constantly tell me to stop hanging on shit lol
I think more people can than can’t, they just don’t know their own strength and can’t focus up enough to follow through when trying.
The thing is in the USA everyone is overweight, so it's like their trying to do weighted pull ups before they even get good at regular pull ups. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more people could do them if he did this challenge in a different country.
@@vegitohaze2081nonsense
I'm a lazy, sedentary 18 year old who's taken a sudden interest in working out; I was able to crank out my first pull up ever a day or two ago. My form sucked horribly but I feel so much better about myself just being able to get my chin above the bar.
Good for you! You should be proud of yourself.
Congrats. I was in a similar place a few months ago. If you practice everyday you’ll get to 10 rep in no time. Then it’s onto muscle ups
how's the journey dude you still working out?
Nice, it took me a couple weeks doing assisted pull ups before I can do 1 on my own,
18 years old, it's an awesome time to start. Even dedicating a solid 6-8 months now can change the rest of your life.
Is it bad watching this makes me feel a lot better about my own physical strength lol
Nope. People weak asf these days.
@@DanielMendoza-vz6ss They are. There are people who can bench a respectable 315 and can't even do 10 pullups. I still can't understand that shit.
@@Gizamalukeix lmao
Depends on how old you are , if you are under 30 , yeah it’s pretty bad that makes you feel good
@@redshift912 my buddy turns 70 in december and can do at least 1 pullup.theres no reason anyone shouldnt be able to do 1
I went from doing 0, 3 years ago, to being able to do 12 at my max in a single go. Honestly, one of my favorite exercises.
...my favorite too. Every time I go to the gym, I do chin ups. Other stuff I rotate through. It must be an instinct thing from the days of climbing trees.
they're awesome. the first couple are the best, when you slam the bar so hard against your chest it rattles the cage. BAM CLANG haha, so satisfying
I just broke 15 the other day and I was like WOAH can’t wait to crank 20 in the future.
X2 te lo juroooo
@@SonsOfDeForestBAM CLANG, what kinda shit is that 🤣🤣🤣
The amount of people that walked past without even allowing themselves to try was crazy.
Even crazier is how many people gave up after putting in only ~20-40% effort. Only Steve and a few others seemed to fully try.
It’s really insightful, it goes to show how people are more interested in protecting their ego or pride than they are at actually advancing. If you never fully try you never actually have to confront your weaknesses.
true. at the start of my training I couldnt get a single dip. 2 years later im 20kg heavier and can do weights I couldnt even imagine back then. its abou trying anyway when you are weak, and still work hard once you get strong
Oddly enough though there was a lack of pride by not trying your best. I'd respect someone way more for putting in 100% than giving up early or not trying. People have a very skewed view of "self pride."
@@ering1107 It’s not a lack of pride to not try because they never said to anyone they wanted to.
Think about it like this, a guy really wants a girl, if he admits to himself and others he wants her and is going to try and pursue her than he has to face the fact that despite his best efforts she might reject him. Ego doesn’t like that so the safer thing is just to lie to others (and possibly even himself) about liking her… That is also a form of pride, wanting to only try things you know you’d be good at.
It really puts into perspective how screwed people who frequent the gym view of strength is. Makes me feel better that I have made progress
Nah, average people are just a waste of Oxygen we aren't special.
I'm supposedly strong for being able to 1rm 100kg on bench? Lol people do 30-40 reps with it.
@@fotis3v480 Thats strong, how is it not? You are in the top 1%, 99th percentile.
The replies smell like insecurity
@@fotis3v480 That´s strong, don´t be insecure haha
@@terrycrews1584 foh mate come on that's nothing. People rep that out on the regular.
It never even crossed my mind that a pull up is this challenging, it’s just something I’ve done since school days and carried it with me into my training today. I would never want to get to a point where I can’t do a pull-up, that’s mad.
Was thinking the same thing I don’t remember ever having to learn a pull up just something I’ve always been able to do and if I suddenly couldn’t Then I’ve hit rock bottom 😂
fr due to health issues I took 2 years off gym and gained 40 pounds... I can still rep out 6 of them lmao
I remember when I was a lot younger the first time I went round a friends house, he had one of those pullup bars that you can put in a doorway, he told me to give it a try and I just hung there like a potato lol. I'd never worked out or anything at that point, even I was surprised how weak I was!
Yea when I first started doing pull-ups I realized how many muscles are required in the motion since I'd wake extremely sore all over the place after doing a couple.
@@alexrailton2067 I was like that during 8th grade, but it just comes naturally. First banded pull ups then free motion, I can do 20 max at 200lb, but just not as easy as when I was 190lb
I'm 53 work out 4 times a week but until today never did a pull up or chin up since 1986! It amazed me that I could do 8 chin ups followed by 5 pull ups since I added a pull up bar to my home gym. Such a versatile exercise so beneficial for strong lats/back/biceps/core. Going to use them now for warm ups & cool downs when training👌💪
Keep it up
7:20
"Sir, can you do a pull up?"
"What?"
"Can you do one pull up?"
"A poll about what?"
💀💀😂😂
I could do 15-20 pull-ups when I was younger, then I put on some weight. 6 weeks ago I started going to the gym again and I couldn't even do two. Today at the gym I did a set of 8, a set of 8, and a set of six. I reckon I could've done 10/11 in a row!
Yeah I was the same, they are so easy when you are young and your strength to weight ratio is high
Pull-ups R one of the best exercises around. Good job getting back in there.
Same when i was 15-16 i started with 1-2 and built up to 14-15 in 3 months. Now at 33 after losing some weight and doing extra gym time to get back in shape i cant get over 7-8. My weight/strength ratio is off.
@@Kanawanu Thanks for the inspiration brother.
Just remember if you feel fat, think of them as a weight vest
Big respect for people actually trying on camera
SO MANY people have such an ego problem these days
The key is not pulling straight up and down but arch your back and push your chest up to the bar. This made all the world of difference for me.
100. pull hard af, like your trying to break the bar across your chest. doing this )( with your elbows also helps. nothing feels better than slamming chest to bar so hard the cage rattles xD BAM CLANG, so satisfying
No. You forgot core. that's the most important.
There are so many different ways you can do it
Chin ups are easier for sure
You cannot pull to your chest if your core is too weak
The attitude with which you went about this was awesome....I love the energy you have in asking everyone.
Was it everyone he asked tho ? Lol
Ill tell you a funny story. I am a trucker, always had an intense pushup and resistance band workout routine. I have big old arms, and look quite fit. Was use to doing 65 pushups first set. I thought i was in decent shape. One day i was bored at a truck stop, and went into the weight room they had. There were pullup grips at the top of the machine. I thought this should be easy. To my amazement i could not even do 1/2 of a pullup. Lol
That was 2 years ago, now pullups are my fav exercise.
I think that's badass, you found a weakness and went right after it.
"If you want to get good at running, you have to go running," my sergeant would always say. I did just that and can now comfortably run a sub-six mile. One day our squadron busted out some jump ropes and I thought, "I haven't jumped rope in a decade, but my cardio is off the charts so this should be cake." To my surprise, I was gassed after about two minutes. It's amazing how your body adapts, but only to the specific thing it's used to. I learned that, in the world of fitness, being good at something similar is not always translatable, which is why I (unpopularly) respect the hell out of crossfit athletes.
push up do contract your scapular plane and the back a tiny bit but it wont help with pull up strength
Pull ups works with different set of muscles though, so it's not strange. It helps a lot if your muscle is strong enough in proportion to your mass.
@@youtubersingingmoments4402 i really want to start jump roping. Seems like an easy add and cheap
Your video inspired me, at 70, to try and do a pull up .
I started at 2-3 chin ups. After 3 months I squeeked out 29 max, untill I strained my wrist.
Had to back off.
I'm back up to 18 last night.
Thanks for the encouragement!
6:30 lmao this guy was awesome and wholesome as hell. You love to see unique personalities like this!
Haha same. I was laughing my ass off (in a good way). Guy was having a great energy 💪😅
That awful form though 😬
Unique ? Dude acts as if hes gay and acts like a creep. He is probably not socialized at all.
@@spartacuscreator Dude he was obviously autistic be nice
I was the guy, and I'm pretty proud of myself. Sure I might be weird and definitely need work on my form, the whole bashing people thing is just laughable. Come on, grow up, and have more exciting lifes if you're so unhappy that you bash someone for actually being unafraid to do something scary 🤗
I recently just got back into fitness training frequently.
I made the dangerous realization that I had become jaded about how long fitness lasts after a person stops working out.
If I hadn't started back I would have quickly fallen into the no pull-up camp. It's amazing how quickly we will become complacent to our health in leui of short term comfort.
Hah, don't tell me about it.
Been there, not done that.
And by that, I mean workout. In years.
its nice to work out, but it doesnt have much to do with health though. everyone is on the health lie, even bodybuilders. just admitt that you want to be strong and or jacked. just slightly fast walking for 5-10km a day for example is healthier then all this strenght training.
dont forget all the injurys that occur while working out
i was/ am injured and want to work out on a regulary base again, though 😪
Definitely the same. I stopped going to the gym about 4 years back but could do around 15 pull ups back then. Was totally shocked when I went to an obstacle course that required an upper body climb and I couldn't even really get started.
Started going to the gym again right after that. 2 months in and its slowly coming back
The key for me is never to have more than 3 days off. Even if injured or ill, do a little movement, stretching even. Keeps your mind in the right place.
Whenever I take a week off, it can turn into months easily
A lot of people are walking around convinced they can do pull-ups, but cannot.
at least they have the confidence! Surely that can teach them to go put ample time in their fitness journey.
Man i was doom scrolling in bed for like 2 hours. Found this video and it made me get up and do 1 pull up. After seeing all those fail it just gave me the urge!
I like to work for my lazy time. I'm doing Shaun T Insanity. Once I'm done, I can be lazy for 45min before my kids gets to me. 😅
This made me stop in the middle of the video and get my pullup bar out to prove to myself I could still do a few pullups. I'm only at 4-5 max in a set right now, but hopefully will get to more soon!
I can do 30 in one set easily and I'm underweight...
@@Anon1gh3 You realize being underweight is irrelevant since it's body weight exercise right?
@@kevinmeeks2787 exactly Being Underwieght makes it 10x easier XD
@@YoYoSanTaYT don’t let the haters put you down, keep grinding and get to 40 pull-ups!
@@onefinelad6263 alright bet
It’s so funny how many cringey and rudeish people come try this but nick keeps such a friendly attitude good job dude
lets be real, thats just normal behavior to getting a camera pointed at you and being asked to do something you're unconfident in.
@@ethyr yes for you because ur 1 of those cringy people.
@@ethyr Yea I would have figured it was a scam and the dude was just trying to sell something.
@@cometh8207 if having empathy means being cringy then yeah im cringy lool
He’s a chad
I think this is one of those things that unless you do them(or similar activity) then you will struggle hard. I remember being fit, but never doing them and thinking it would be easy. Stalling out on two!
Same I do a lot of exercises in gym but not pull up,got ALL messed up after 10 other day
you are exactly right and that is why he is doing this challenge
people don’t realize how difficult, even one, pull up is for somebody that doesn’t do pull-ups
@@therealjackieheezy idk bro gymming for 7 years now, never practiced pull ups and yet pull ups crazy easy for me 🤣
@@therealjackieheezy you do similair exercisez with the machines only that there is slight shift in muscle activation due to it requiring more coordination
@@NLSniperLordNL let me clarify, i meant ppl who don’t do pull ups or exercise in general
somebody like yourself that does his thing but maybe not pull ups so much, i can definitely see you breaking some off if you wanted to
This was fun to watch! I did not realise just doing 1 for the average person is very difficult, i am doing 3 sets of 10 when fresh , i am 46 , i pull my knees up too
Im 60 and I can do ten hanging from the bottom and i thought my being in shape days were over.After seeing this I feel slightly better.
Good stuff man that's good for your age 💪🏼
@@monkecuh9 I didn’t think it was
@@mortgagefinancing5558it’s Actually really good, not many 60 year olds would be able to even do one clean pull up
@@mortgagefinancing5558how are you a 60 year old pick me ffs 😂
@@pruddz6734 not sure what you are saying ?
Steve got humbled real quick!!!
fr
“I know what I’m doing” yeah sure you do Steve.
oh that's easy enough
“Not bad for 51”
@@MilkTestingMan ikr?! 🤣🤣
I’m blown away at how many people cannot pull their body up just one time! Hi Nick from Medford. Great informative video👍
Where have you been all this time?
I’m sure order countries would do so much better than us
@@badsanta7356 I figured most people could do a pull up it’s not that difficult but it all depends on who you are testing
@@davidhernandez2683 I’m sure it depends on who you are including in this survey. Stand in front of a gym and the odds are most people can do a pull up. Go to a convalescent home and nobody could do one. But I suppose most people can’t do one. I find them to be very easy.
@@bvreid18 yea but the way it was done in this video is more accurate. Just random people not people that you know workout consistently
100% that stat is real.
One of my goals is to do 1 good pullup. I recently started doing dips and I'm so close to doing controlled dips on bars. I literally held myself up the first like 20 times.
Update?
One thing that helps is negative pull ups especially when you can only do one
when I was 18 I couldnt even do one good dip. at 20 now I crank them out easy. keep working and youll get it. I also couldnt crank 3 decent pullups. now I do 100kg (total) weighter pullups for 10 reps
Steve might’ve got a pullup on the thin bar. The thicker the bar, the more difficult the grip. Shoutout to everyone who tried 🗣🔥
i was wondering about that thicker bar that was definitely the scam factor for the uninitiated lol
@@zacksomers1811 Hey, clickbait doesn't make itself, how else are all the 50+ year olds in the comments here going to tell us about how they went from only lifting cans of beer to now lifting rockets into space.
@@cautemoc4624 lol
@@cautemoc4624 bro im dead 😂
You give so much positive energy. I can’t understand how people are so rude and stiff. Bro if you did this in here in the Netherlands and it doesn’t matter where, you would have a whole crowd of people around you and everyone participating would be so thankfull. Everyone in the video looks so full of themselves with all the comment about themselves
Welcome to America!!! Sadly everyone thinks their too good to be friendly 😕
Hahaha if he tried this in ams he would go broke, every one here is fit af
nah hes kinda pushy with these. needs to actually show the cash first
It's Oregon. It'd be different in the South.
@@davis4555 Agree, I used to live in both LA and NY, while my aunt lives in Louisiana. The difference is night and day. Blue states, especially their mega cities, are basically hellhole without biblical fire. They portrayed it as the ultimate American dream, while cowboys in rural Midwest and down South are much better human beings, just the media portrayed them as either uncivilized hillbilly, Amish, or inbreds. Even Australia's megacities are better than America's politically wise.
imagine if someone that does calisthenics came there and started doing muscle ups
1000 dollars
that's exactly what i thougt. If it has arrived to myslef i would have done every fcuking muscle up variation that i know just to flex lmao
It does not change anything though, it still would be 100 dollars :D Pretty sure anyone doing 20 decent pull ups can do muscle ups
Even better a one arm pull up
Image David goggins comes and does 4000 pull-ups 😭
I did 9 consecutive wide grip pull ups yesterday. I'm 62 so props to me.
Thats amazing honestly, i wonder if too many people write themselves off of working out after they reach a certain age
Proud of you sir
Great!!
Bro glazing himself😂
9 WIDE GRIP pull ups engaging mostly your upper back is fucking ridiculously hard
The amount of "I'm in way too much of a hurry to prove I can." is too funny.
LMAO!
60 year old man here. My standard bodyweight is 17 pullups then hang at the top and do 1 more. Took me 1 year and a half to do 8 pullups with 40 lbs weights before I could do those 18 with bodyweight. These are all done non stop and with correct form. I was motivated with those guys in the park on utube.
You’re breathtaking
@@NCRRanger16 sus
Dude that's awesome! Your comment is inspiring for me, I'm 59 and can do about 5 without hopping or kicking.
Just turned 57 last month. I do 5 sets of 10 wide arm pullups. No kipping. And, not to exhaustion because I want good, clean reps. Hum, I wonder what I could max on. No, I'm not bragging. But, a man of average height and weight should be able to do one measly pullup.
Yoooo I do the same shit at 12 pulls good form as my warm up.. hold as long as I can (20 secs) slow decent and one more
I'm not 60 lol
Good stuff 👏🏽
I had just found your channel 2 days ago and was going through all your previous videos...what a time to drop a new one Nick...
Hope you like this one! Thanks for watching my videos :)
Best channel on TH-cam next to cashnasty 😉
The only pull up most people do is pulling a big mac into their face😂
The way you interacted with Vitaly made my day. You’re the best, Nick.
Nick's a genuinely great guy, I can confirm that too!
@@vitalyfreidin7003 npc behaviour
Only did 13 at the gym the other day after a long layoff, which was discouraging (used to be able to do 25). But this video reminded me that it’s a still a lot better than average.
I also did 13 today but it wasn't really clean.
Before 5 days I used to do 3-4 so I guess this was an upgrade
13 strict pull-ups is really impressive. 25 pull-ups is insane.
But the truth is that 90% of people lie to themselves. They don't do a strict pull-up which means after every rep you need to get into a dead hang.
I can do 14 strict pull-ups but that's after a year of training.
@@youngdimaggio8446 damm my record is almost 13 but now i can only do around 8
8 is average for fit people we dont count unfit civilians
average in america is still fat lol
was unable to do a single one about 3 months ago and can now do two, slowly but surely!
And now?
@@aluisiomotagodinho7155 Honestly, I haven't tested yet, currently going focus on other calisthenics stuff like one-arm pushups
and now?
@@gkone6722 I believe like 5 or so, my body weight has increased by around 30 pounds since I wrote that comment lol
update
Vitaly seems like such a genuinely awesome friend to have!
I was previously 280 pounds and nothing but fat. I've lost over 90 pounds and started working out this year. Pullups have been the last thing I've been able to get going with, but with a few weeks of consistency and effort, I am now doing 7 pullups in a single set (this compared to zero 6 six months ago)
Also, Steve was fronting and got exposed. 🤣😂
Great job congrats on the achievement
Good stuff.Soon you’ll be doing pull-ups with a 45lb plate strapped on.
@@BrooklynBalla with black ⚫⚫
51 year old dude probably benched 405 in high school
He also could deadlift 6 plates
Thought we was over 60. He's like "not too bad for 51", well not really great either to be honest.
@@Monsterenergy791 fr lmao
@@Monsterenergy791 Exactly. I’m in my 50s and can still do at least 12. And I ain’t much!
Seriously, men should not let themselves get so weak that they can’t do a few pull-ups. Being older is no excuse!
@@Michael-cb5nm Preach it!!
Currently in the 25+ pull-up camp. This is good motivation to remind everyone how quickly we lose fitness - it's easier to keep when you already have it.
Out of curiosity do you do underhand (chin up) or overhand? Chin ups I can definitely do 25+ but overhand my best is 22 and that took me a while to get to.
I'm stalling at about 12-13
@@BrettMKW overhand wide grip. Heavy weighted pull ups can help you push past plateau, I very infrequently go for pull-ups at high reps.
@@BrettMKW chinups activate biceps more, pullups lats
What do y'all do when your biceps get so inflamed and filled with blood that you physically can't bend your elbows enough to reach your chin above the bar? Currently, I'm getting stuck at around 10 without running out of energy due to this problem.
When I was a teenager I could do sets of 20. I've let myself go and now can't do one, but I'm working out again. This video made me feel good and inspires me to get back to that point. 🤘
He didn't lose himself @9:39 his palms are sweaty🤣🤣
I was never able to do a single pull up in my prime. I used to think that it was way too hard. After 34 years old, I finally succeeded and was able to do between 5 and 10 pull up from the dead hang position. Never give up, trust me, it's never too late and doing 3 to 5 pull up is not that hard.Just developed good habits and seek the advice of people who have already conquered the objectives you are after.
I have never been able to do any pull ups. A few days ago I was at my friend’s house and tried one and for some reason I did it pretty easily. I still don’t know how I did it.
"Just developed good habits and seek the advice of people who have already conquered the objectives you are after." Recipe for achieving anything :D
@@Janizu2142 exactly, discipline and humility to learn from others applies to every aspect of life.
Same here, took me several months if not a year to understand that I have to bring my shoulder blates together while at the same time bringing the shouders down in one smooth motion all the way up.
@@Joh-jf5kc exactly, correct technique is crucial. All back and core muscles along with arm strength are gonna be more capable than arm strength only. There are tons of tutorials on You Tube and channels like Athlean X which can help. For us in the internet era there are absolutely no excuses, knowledge is within reach, like literally at hand
Lol lady at 2:40 "I could do one but I don't want to" cap
FACTS
The fiona cut out rolling on the scream cracked me up 😂
06:10 bro was so upset that he couldn't do it
Huge respect for the 21!💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Before I started going to the gym almost one year ago I could do one single, shaky chin above bar pull up, now I can do 14. It's one of my favorite exercises and a regular exercise in my program.
Hell yes Jonay, pull ups are one of the purest measures of upper body strength, keep hitting them
Start adding weight dude! Hang a kettlebell or dumbbell from your waist. I try and stay in rep ranges of 8 - 12 and add weight when I get beyond 12. Currently get around 12 with a 20kg weight
Ayyy, good job king, keep on grinding 👑💪
Dang that is really impressive
20kg is 44.09 lbs for any Americans.
@@bobs8005 guess you're not very strong then, maybe lose some weight
I went from doing 45 to barley doing 2 in about 3 years. A warning out there to others on how quickly you can lose it if you start slacking!
Same, went from 10 to 0 in couple years, but muscle memory is a thing so I got back my strength quite fast
45 strict pull-ups ... You must be the strongest person in the world
He is a BSer😂
@@edfrancis165 ofcorse he is a liar hahaha
@@arronbatchvarov5035 There's a comment above of an allegedely 61 yo doing 60 dead hang pull ups lol
should do this challenge near my china buffet or mcdonalds 😂
Man, nobody gets people active and believing in themselves like Nick. Love these videos
yes,meanwhile i'm still trying to do a pull-up to those challenges lol(i have been trying for a week to do a pull up on a random tree,kinda hard)
Надеюсь это переведётся
Немного обидно смотреть такие видео когда у тебя в колледже норматив 14 подтягиваний
Ведь мне приходится прикладывать все свои силы ради 4 у нас пятибалльная система оценивания а тут всего за одно подтягивание в качестве награды моя стипендия
5:54 mad he agreed to do it now lolll "i know what i'm doing"
I am training for this day baby
If you've never done it before, it's hard. Even if you have more than enough strength to pull yourself up. I could lift my own body weight (52 kilos[very hard, but not impossible]) but when I tried for the first time it was extremely hard. I did it but still, felt like I weighed 3-4x my actual weight
When you say "lift you own bodyweight" which lift are you referring to? The deadlift uses a lot of leg drive, where as a pullup is zero leg drive, so it would make sense that you couldn't do one pullup. One pullup would be equivalent to a BW lat pulldown or BB row.
@@gumlus1257 I meant pull-up. I didn’t use my legs at all so yeah. Just upper body strength
Yeah its hard as hell, took me a year of lifting (ik🙈🙈) just to do two at 14 (started at 13)
@@nazfx2648 How much do you feel your back working?
As a 50 pound elementary kid back in the day, I could do at least one, there is no excuse for any person not to be able to do one, if your in moderate shape
The old man who said "A poll about what?" had me crying 😂
After being skinny fit my whole life i finally can do 5-6 pull ups with perfect form after a few months and it always feels like that's not many at all, but after seeing this i feel a little better.
Do you use gtg method?
That's a lot! I could do 20 when I wrestled in highschool, but now I'm not even sure I could do 5 or 6 lol
Weighing 125 pounds and being ripped as fuck definently helps
Man where are these challenges near me. I would love a quick $100. lol
Nick, i just watched this whole clip, very entertaining...you should definitely do more of these that involve the general public. Especially the goofy office workers...Honestly, people need to start working out more. Those young ones should have been able to do at least one.
im 13 yr old girl and i could do around 10 strict pull-ups last year, but i stopped doing them because i had nowhere to practice, so idk where to do em lol
but this kind of inspired me to try to practice more and try harder to find places so i hope this video also inspired others to, because you never know where nick could be!
*EDIT* : thank you so much for all the suggestions! my mom told me there was a gym in our community and im actually up to 11 pull-ups. my goal is to do 12-15 before my 14th birthday. i wish everyone luck with their strength journeys and *never* give up, because you've already worked so hard, there's no use in giving up now. it will take work, but you can't earn anything if you never try. wouldn't it be a shame to one day say that you sacrificed your success to sit comfortably with your excuses? And dont you realize, if you quit now, you'll end up right back to where you first began. When you first began, you were desperate to be where you are now.
So keep going and Stay safe
A park playground is usually a good bet outside. Try a tree with a relatively horizontal branch or the back of a stairwell that is metal. A sturdy table that you can go under and do horizontal pullups will carry over well
@@alvaroalfaro9478 thank you! :)
YMCA
@Tyreid Liar thanks!
@@tatertots-n-soup oh, good idea :)
I love seeing people succeed. Especially when they doubt themselves and then prove that they can do it.
Last kid didn’t hang, such a nice guy nick ! It pays to be fit and nice !
I honestly love your spirit when you're doing this
At 61, I can do pull ups. I typically do 4 sets of 8 to 10 in a workout. I did a progression to get there though. I started with banded pull ups, negatives only, etc.
That's Dedication and commitment right there congratulations jimbo
*Folks, I did 8 one arm muscle ups* *Please me*
That is very impressive 👏
Man I'd love to run into a challenge like this some day. My friends and I all do rock climbing and calisthenics, and I'd love to do this just to bolster the number of people that can do 1 pull up.
This is making me feel powerful))
5:15 I'm quite sure that dude went back from robbing a bank
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I struggled 6 months to do 8 pull ups in row. Now I can do average 6 pulls 4 sets. So happy how far I came❤
7:52 Damn the editor got no chill lmao
It’s very bizarre to those of us that have always been active, but I have been surprised many times to learn how incredibly difficult it is to do pull-ups for those who never work out. Grateful to have a strong and healthy body and hopefully others will be inspired to do the same
my baseline 2 years ago after not working out at all for years was 2 pullups. Now I've been rock climbing for two years and I can do 10! Like really proper pull ups, all the way down then chin over the bar and back down. It feels so good to finally feel and look strong at age 35. Took me long enough
Rock climbing does 2 wonders for your back strength
I couldnt do one pull up 2 years ago before I started climbing and now the most ive done is 15! Its an incredible feeling to make that progress.
What V can you climb?
Damn. The 21 pull ups dude is very strong. He managed those like a boss
I cant believe how small he looks for how strong he is
after awatching them i did 30 haha
Neither of them went all the way down. Actually all of the pull ups had different ROM.
These kinds of contests are meaningless without a clear definition of a rep.
If you count this as 21 pull ups, there's no wonder so many people on youtube claim they can do over 20. They just do some random ROM and end up with an arbitrary count.
@@MrCmon113 I dont think their pullups where perfect but they where pretty good form and with perfect form they might do like 3 less. The people that claim to easilly do 30 are kinda bullshitting tho because 30 is a LOT. Like I could do a one arm pullup when I couldnt do more then 20 pullups without even ever training for it. Thats how much 20 good pullups are worth.
Just found your channel earlier this week and I've been binging your content. I love your attitude and the message and awareness you're spreading about fitness!
I like to watch those videos because after a long time of training sometimes im disappointed and i can remember where i was before and how most people arent half there. Not to compare but just to appreciate the work done
I am 59 and I do pull-ups at least twice per week. My daughters are impressed because so many young people can't do one. Pushups and pull-ups are high-yield exercises in return for a modest time commitment.
@Slawsers 35 reps at any bodyweight is actually insane. When you start adding mass though the reps start dropping. Similar story, 20 reps at 150lb and 12 reps at 200lb.
Pushups are SO under rated. I do sometimes 150 in a day.. NO not all in one set.. but the pump is always there.. Still weak on pullups, though
Young people are getting married way too young. an I phone is a lousy sex partner.. and kids are not anywhere close to being in the same shape we were at their age. 60 years ago it was like wrestle with my neighbor for half an hour, then shoot some hoops.. probably 4-5 times a week. but we had typewriters, and no computers. in fact no electronic calculators, but a slide rule . The kids today never go out, or work out.. just eat junk food and get fat
@@hippy1002 not true. people are getting married older than ever, if at all.
When I started working out again several months ago, it took me 2 months to be able to do a single pull up. It felt really good, like a nice tangible milestone in fitness. Now I can do at least 5 with perfect form, maybe a couple more if I struggled for it. I think it's a really good measure of someone's fitness because it directly pits them against their own bodyweight.
chest must touch bar or it doesn't count imo. full ROM best ROM
Try working out with calisthenics Rings much more heavier than normal calisthenics
Man that last guy looked liked someone was just pushing him up and down 🤣
Props to him 👌
Thank you, I've watched Nick's videos for a while and always wanted to be in one, saw a FB ad the same day I took a day off work, and that's how I ended up there xD.
@@vitalyfreidin7003 uhhh, he wasn't talking about you though...
Lol nothing like that feeling of failure before going shopping or going home… 😂😂.. but hey maybe it convinced people they should get in shape.
I thought, "show me the money" was going to be the best quote and then along came "I know who you are!"
Man I wish these would pop up at places I go haha. Glad you're doing this though, hopefully it gets more people into a fitness routine.
I'm pretty sure he says where he's going to do the challenges ahead of time on his insta. Or so I've heard another commenter say.
Can't hurt to check it out
I love doing pull-ups. It's one of the most satisfying workouts for me.
I loved this video! Wish I had been there. I'm a woman, and it took me three months of training to get my first pull-up of my life. I was 36 at the time. I didn't know it was possible for women to do pull-ups. I have a clear memory of my freshman year of high school: Our gym teacher had the girls go up to the pull-up bar one by one for the physical fitness exam. Not even one girl from the class could do a pull-up--even our school's star athlete who was a state swimming champion. She got halfway up and was kicking as if she could swim the rest of the way up. Everyone was rooting for her and laughing at her at the same time. Even she couldn't do it.
Finally at 36 years old, 22 years later, I was able to complete one pull-up and three consecutive chin-ups. One of the proudest moments of my life.
been doing 50-100 pullups a day for a year i have gotten pretty low key ripped, can do 20 without stopping